Mehmet Erdem (Hospitality) was promoted to the role of senior associate dditor for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology. Previously, Erdem held the roles of assistant and associate editor, respectively. Since publishing its first issue in 2010, JHTT is ranked 5th among all SSCI-indexed journals in the hospitality field, and…

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" for the screenplay, The Phatman, at the Indo Dubai Film Festival.

 Alain Bengochea, Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Suheyla Sarisahin, Tracey West, and Xin Zhang (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "Toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation: elementary and secondary teachers’ shifting beliefs and practices in English-medium settings" in the International Journal of Bilingual…

Alexandra Nur (Criminal Justice) and her colleagues Holly Nguyen and Brandy Parker from the Department of Sociology & Criminology at Pennsylvania State University recently published an article in Social Science Research  titled, "Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation." In this article, the authors…

The Cannabis Policy Institute and William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, including Director Riana Durrett (UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute), were proud to welcome national cannabis law figure, Robert Mikos to the school as a visiting scholar on February 9. Mikos, whose research interests include federalism, constitutional law, drug law and policy…

Kati McNamara (Social Work) and Susie Skarl (Libraries) co-authored an article titled "Transgender service in the U.S. military: A scoping review" in the International Journal of Transgender Health. The review mapped and synthesized research findings from 58 articles on transgender service, including demographics, gender-affirming healthcare…

Stewart Chang's (Law) article, A Right to be Born?: What Dobbs Could Mean for Artificial Reproductive Technologies, was published in the University of Baltimore Law Review. 

Yan Zhou (Physics and Astronomy) received a five-year Early Career Award from the Department of Energy in the amount of $875,000. By integrating techniques from trapped-ion quantum information processing with the exceptional sensitivity of molecules, Zhou’s team will develop a tabletop experiment capable of probing combined Charge and Parity (CP)…

Baylor Akhavan and Wolfram Samlowski (both Medicine) have recently published a study titled, "A combination of low TMB and PD-L1 expression predict poor progression-free survival of metastatic melanoma patients treated with first-line ipilimumab plus nivolumab," in Frontiers in Immunology. The study showed that tumor mutational burden (…